Tony Conrad Movies

  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

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    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 2021
    The Velvet Underground

    The Velvet Underground

    The Velvet Underground

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    Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd...

    The Velvet Underground
  • 2012
    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

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    An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...

    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
  • 2013
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    7.42013HD

    An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1963
    Flaming Creatures

    Flaming Creatures

    Flaming Creatures

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    Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously...

    Flaming Creatures
  • 1963
    Normal Love

    Normal Love

    Normal Love

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    The feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-movies...

    Normal Love
  • 1968
    The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

    The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

    The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

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    At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconscious Magnetism.

    The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
  • 2016
    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

    7.62016HD

    Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic filmmaker/musician/composer/artist Tony Conrad.

    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

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    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

    365 Day Project
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1963
    Chumlum

    Chumlum

    Chumlum

    61963HD

    Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of...

    Chumlum
  • 1970
    Straight and Narrow

    Straight and Narrow

    Straight and Narrow

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    Straight and Narrow is a study of subjective colour and visual rhythm, although it is printed on black and white film, the hypnotic pacing of the...

    Straight and Narrow
  • 1988
    Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire

    Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire

    Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire

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    If the intersection of desire and authority is phallus, the intersection of absence and vigilance is vagina. The tape’s laconic title (I saw, I...

    Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire
  • 2017
    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

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    In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and...

    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
  • 2007
    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    6.62007HD

    In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
  • 2003
    Grading Tips for Teachers

    Grading Tips for Teachers

    Grading Tips for Teachers

    02003HD

    Tony Conrad provides useful & alternative grading tips for teachers. Made in Buffalo, NY.

    Grading Tips for Teachers
  • 2014
    This Is Cosmos

    This Is Cosmos

    This Is Cosmos

    02014HD

    Based on the ideas of Russian philosopher, Nikolai Fedorov, Anton Vidokle’s film was shot in Siberia, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. Fedorov, like...

    This Is Cosmos
  • 1967
    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc

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    The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is applied to the War in Vietnam. The film is experimental...

    Joan of Arc
  • 1970
    Coming Attractions

    Coming Attractions

    Coming Attractions

    01970HD

    “Coming Attractions” looks backward into the memories and forward into the future of Francis Francine, an elegantly dowdy transvestite...

    Coming Attractions
  • 1982
    Palace of Error

    Palace of Error

    Palace of Error

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    “A theory discourse among three participants, enacted in silhouette.” –Tony Conrad

    Palace of Error